Tag: wind
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Snow on the Way! Watch for Freezing Rain
Freezing Rain or snow Saturday East Vancouver Island The extremely wintery weather continues this weekend, starting Friday night. There is still some disagreement in the models so this forecast will sound a little different from this morning’s Environment Canada forecast. The UWash model is currently showing light precipitation beginning midday Saturday on the East side…
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Watch for Flash Freezing – SNOW DAY – Schools Closed SD70-NIC-VIU
Warmer than expected Morning – But Watch for Ice! Woke up this morning to hear the SE wind blowing and the temperature popped up to 3ºC overnight. We got 23cm (9″) by 9PM last night. The Airport officially got 24cm, I’ve seen reports of up to 28cm around Port Alberni. Some of that will have…
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Change in Pattern – Wet 7 days ahead
Rain will increase – Starting Friday through the weekend After weeks of dry weather we are finally into what looks like a long term change to more normal rainy fall weather. Expect the rain to begin for real on Friday morning. Here is the picture for early Friday morning, a strong band across the Island.…
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Snowy to the East and South – Cold Everywhere
Morning Flurries There were patches of flurries happening all the way from Parksville to Nanaimo this morning. There was snow on the ground in Coombs and Errington, but neither of these were true in Port Alberni (except perhaps deeper Beaver Creek/Beaufort) It has continued to flurry off and on for the past few hours here…
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Small Atmospheric River Thursday then Sunday Snow?!
Learning something new – AR Scale Last week I learned about a new-to-me scale used to classify Atmospheric River events. Here’s the chart! It’s a pretty cool, and detailed, chart. It uses the “Maximum Vertically Integrated Water Vapour Transport” and the length of an event to come up with a category from 1 being beneficial…